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I’ve started to compile list of books recommended by followers and myself. You can find them here.

If there are any more suggestions, please send them in!

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Great question.

Creativity

To be a good designer you have to be open to different ideas or methods. I’ve noticed that I’ve been designing the same way in studio for the past 2 semesters and my projects have been too predictable. I’m now learning and hoping that next semester I’m going to think differently. I’m going to open my eyes to different design. So creativity is important. It opens up new and more sources of inspiration for projects.

Critical Thinker and Analyzer

Starting to look at things in a more critical way really enhances your idea and knowledge of architecture. Simply looking at a building and finding it interesting does not help. Answer questions as: What do you find interesting? Why is this space designed this way? How does the light enter the space? Are the materials used specifically? Finding the why’s and how’s of architecture.

Producing Work

Being able to produce clear ideas, one needs to be able to produce clear drawings/sketches. Whether you prefer hand drawn or computer generated is all up to you, but being able to produce good work really matters. You can’t possibly communicate a design idea without visual content, we are designers, we are visual people.

Time Management

This is probably one of the most important things about being an architect/architecture student. Most people won’t probably get a set routine till second year or even third year, but when you do, stick with what works for you. Remember to put work before friends. Unfortunately you have to sacrifice time with friends to get things done. But this isn’t the case if you are really on top of your work. Get things done early, don’t leave things for a later time, and be productive. 

Communication

Being able to present or propose an idea is key. Listen to others and how they present their ideas, pick up what and how your professor talks about precedents, and expand your vocabulary. Try learning new words to explain your ideas.

Technical Abilities

No firm wants to hire an architecture student who thinks only in theory or whimsical things. Really understanding how a building is put together and stands is important. Employers look for those who really understand how their design is structurally supported. Something good to put in a portfolio would be some structural drawings or sections. Also knowing how mechanical and electrical systems work.

Problem Solving

In school now we have professors to help guide us through our problems, but by your forth year you should have a strong sense of correcting yourself. I think that once you enter a masters program you really develop a greater sense of problem solving.

Love for Architecture

Lastly, to get through architecture school and to become an architect you need to have passion. One without passion won’t be able to produce a design in comparison to one who shows love for the subject. Love what you do.

There are a couple more things relevant such as: Business Sense, Collaboration, Vision, Listening Skills, etc. I hope this helps you get a better sense of what we do!

-Jess

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On Coping With Failure

Hi guys, long time no post 

I’m ending the academic year on a mostly positive note. But I found out I got a 68 on my final Chinese exam ever, the worst grade I have ever received in a subject I’m normally excellent in, my own major! I still have an A- in the class, but this was a blow to my ego. 

I cried, I felt like I was certifiably the worst, and worried I’d spiral back into depression But instead, I turned to great quotes for comfort. Let me share some with you, if you’re also a studyblr struggling to get back up again after being knocked down

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” ― Truman Capote

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” ― Maya Angelou

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald “Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.” ― Henry Ford

“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” ― Samuel Beckett

“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.” ― Roger Von Oech “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” ― Denis Waitley

“Because when you find something you love, you can’t quit. Every failure pushes you harder. It’s in your soul and in your fucking heart” 

― Becca Ritchie

“You make mistakes, mistakes don’t make you” ― Maxwell Maltz “Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.” ― Dottie Walters

“Have faith in your skills. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” ― Suzy Kassem

“Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.” ― J.K. Rowling

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Beautiful things grow out of shit. Nobody ever believes that. Everyone thinks that Beethoven had his string quartets completely in his head—they somehow appeared there and formed in his head—and all he had to do was write them down and they would be manifest to the world. But what I think is so interesting, and would really be a lesson that everybody should learn, is that things come out of nothing. Things evolve out of nothing. You know, the tiniest seed in the right situation turns into the most beautiful forest. And then the most promising seed in the wrong situation turns into nothing. I think this would be important for people to understand, because it gives people confidence in their own lives to know that’s how things work. If you walk around with the idea that there are some people who are so gifted—they have these wonderful things in their head but and you’re not one of them, you’re just sort of a normal person, you could never do anything like that—then you live a different kind of life. You could have another kind of life where you could say, well, I know that things come from nothing very much, start from unpromising beginnings, and I’m an unpromising beginning, and I could start something.

Brian Eno, Here Is What Is (cf. David Rakoff: “Writing starts off as shit.”)

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